My Largest Cutting Board/Butrcher Block To Date!

I made this cutting board for a charity event where it was bid on during an auction. This beautiful beast is made from Maple, Padauk, Purpleheart, Red Oak, and Walnut. This is an end-grain cutting board that is approximately 26” x 18” x 2” with each square being 1.75”. I went ahead and decided to weight this puppy and it came in at a whopping 24lbs. I used Titebond III for the glue-up and at least 7 coats of General Finishes Salad Bowl Finishing Mix which really darkened it up quite a bit which I personally love. I used a roundover on one side of the cutting board and added 2” x 2” x 1/4” (8 total) rubber feet on the bottom. As far as sanding, I used my disc sander with 80, 120, 150, and 220 with #0000 steel wool in between coats. I told the new owner of this board that it can used for at least three things… to cut food on, as a weapon for an intruder, or possibly as a surfboard! ;)

I agree, this is a keeper and it was really hard to give it up but it was charity and for a good cause so I’m using that “excuse” to make myself feel better. There is another big cutting board in my gallery that I made for my wife (it’s all mahogany) that came out really nice as well and we did keep that one!

Hello BArnold, the randomness is actually a very important thing for me because I have a bit of OCD and I’m not really in to anything “random”. My wife was very proud of me for doing something that was not uniform. However, I did have to make sure that the same wood species were not next to each other and that they were only placed diagonally from each other. :)